Jun 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Helped the team transition to an evented system used SNS and SQS
• Lead an initiative to start contract testing between our different services
• Mentored the team on various topics including Elixir, Postgres, general engineering practices

Apr 2023 – Jun 2023 · 2 mos

Jun 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Platform Team Lead using Elixir/Phoenix and Erlang.
• Spearheaded multiple tasks such as
• Reduced compilation time of application from over five minutes to less than one
• Reinventing the recruitment process
• Creating a training program for new developers of all skill levels
• Optimized usage and performance of our Postgres database
• Transformed our request based monolith to an event based system using Apache Kafka to pave the way for micro-services
• Created a way to take our sequential Redis tests and made them asynchronous
• Regular tasks include
• Acting as a liaison to various product facing teams in order to ensure we are following best practices and helping with architecture decisions
• Creating various abstractions for the product teams to use

Jun 2016 – Jun 2021 · 5 yrs

• Building and maintaining a suite of workforce managements applications with a focus on transparency for both the employee and the organization they work within. These applications are built using JRuby and Rails, Elixir and Phoenix, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
• Responsible for interviewing and hiring potential candidates to add to our software development team.

Jul 2015 – May 2016 · 10 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Building out a platform that allowed our clients to interface with various social media advertising platforms using Ruby Rails and Angular.

Apr 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Building both internal and client facing applications. This includes various real time reporting systems to allow everyone the information they require at a glance. These are currently a mix of Python and Ruby applications.
• Creating prototypes in both Haskell and Golang in order to benchmark against, and potentially replace, our current systems built in C#.
• Rebuilding our core Real Time Bidding application using Golang to replace our current systems built in C#.

Feb 2014 – Apr 2014 · 2 mos

• Building an easily scalable infrastructure framework. Utilizing tools such as Mesos and Marathon.

Dec 2013 – Apr 2014 · 4 mos

• Build a dynamic web application using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• Introduced the to team agile methodoligy. Including but not limited to: Automated Testing, Scrum, etc.

Apr 2011 – Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Responsible for project deployments, server installation, configuration and maintenance along with all internal infrastructure.
• Developing dynamic web applications using Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3.
• Developing native mobile applications using C++ for a base API, Java for Android and Objective-C for iOS.
• Testing the security of applications created and internal infrastructure.

Sep 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Tutored students across multiple programs and years in PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, C++ and basic web configurations such as Apache, PHP, MySQL.